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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
3,270 entries
September 20, 2022 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Greenville, NC
My wife and I were sitting on our porch and I observed a bright white/orange light in the sky seemingly pretty far away. It caught my eye because it wasn’t there at one point. The light would get very bright, like Venus, and then dim to nothing. There was no timing I could get out of it and sometimes it would do it 2-3 times a minute or disappear for 5-10 mins then reappear. I was outside the night before (9/19) and noticed the light in the same patch of sky but didn’t observe it so I chocked it up to being a star. I grabbed my binoculars to try and get a better look but couldn’t see much more. When it got bright there looked like a haze around it. Possibly a cigar/tictac shape but not sure.
September 19, 2022 · 9:00 PM · CIGAR
Wilmington, NC
It was black and long like a stick and had 6 rectangle shaped windows on it of white light coming out and it was moving very fast! I have never seen anything like that before so this is the first time seeing this type of UFO. [I did see a UFO years ago a saucer type that landed in front of us and sat on the ground. It was Gold and lights went around it all purple light when it landed. It toyed with us while drying, and it came from space! that happened in 1975!]
September 17, 2022 · 9:27 PM · DIAMOND
Charlotte, NC
It was very quick and flashed away after 2 minutes. My cats went insane, making a lot of noise and tails puffed up.
September 16, 2022 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Wrightsville Beach, NC
I work as a music producer, and my wife works as a teacher. My wife and I drove down to Wrightsville Beach tonight, to do some romantic stargazing. We were at the 43rd access of Wrightsville Beach tonight, on Friday, September 16th, 2022. We rolled out a beach blanket, laid back looking up at the stars, and we both saw some unusual lights that were moving above us. At 8:30pm, we saw two very silent unidentified crafts, neither of which made any engine sounds at all. The first UFO was round like a mechanical wagon wheel, shining a white light, and hovering about a mile above the Atlantic Ocean. It would travel left, or weave right, and sometimes just hover in place. The second UFO looked like a round red ball of light, that would intermittently flash a white light. So that the appearance was a red and white flashing craft, flying about 300 feet above the beach. In a matter of a few seconds, the second UFO was seen traveling due West along the coastline, exceeding speeds beyond 3,000 mph, and in a flash disappeared beyond the horizon. My wife and I were shocked, because we haven't seen anything quite like this, so we took pictures and video clips of the unidentified objects. What are these?
September 16, 2022 · 8:30 PM · CHANGING
Wrightsville Beach, NC
*UPDATED REPORT* I live in Wilmington, NC. I'm a Music Producer and my wife works as a teacher. Friday night, my wife and I drove out to Wrightsville Beach for some romantic stargazing. But, at 8:30 PM, we were surprised to spot 2 UFOs. The first craft emitted a bright white light, was too wide to be a star, and was like a mechanical wagon wheel in appearance. In the video it appears to have a forcefield around it. It flew left, then right, but mainly hovered in place about a mile in the air over the Atlantic Ocean. The second craft was a red sphere about 300 feet in the air, which morphed shape, and changed flashing colors between red, white, yellow, and green. After a few minutes, the second craft zoomed past us to our left, heading westward down the coast at about 3,000 mph. We ascertained this speed and measurements based off of the position of the crafts, in relation to the stationary stars, per the number of seconds it took for it to vanish over the horizon. We called the US FAA, that Friday night and left a message. Monday afternoon 9/19/22, James at the airtraffic control tower called us back. When we asked him if there were any commercial or government aircraft flying over Wrightsville Beach that night around 8:30 PM, he said there were not any commercial or government flights scheduled for that Beach area. When we asked him what he thought it was, he replied he didn't know, because drones cannot reach speeds of 3,000 mph. We zoom edited the original photos & videos together into an attached YouTube video.
September 16, 2022 · 7:00 AM · CIRCLE
Asheville, NC
A large circle of lights non blinking. About the size of the moon but not close to the moon. Stationary. After awhile it began to fade. Very bright.
September 12, 2022 · 9:25 AM · DISK
Mount Airy, NC
Driving home and saw something flying over the field close to home. It really wasn’t large in size but can’t give an exact size. I drove passed it unable to get a photo and when I looked in my mirror it was gone. It was a dark grayish almost black color.
September 11, 2022 · 5:20 AM · CYLINDER
North Topsail Beach, NC
The vertical object was plainly visible yet my phone was unable to pick it up. It was difficult to judge the distance, it appeared to be moving down and away from me, I say away because it became smaller and smaller. It was so shocking to see because it was so visible and bright, no clouds or anything obscuring my line of sight. My first thought was it is moving down towards the ocean but then realized as it got smaller that it was moving east, away from me. The light had a white look and were in an organized dotted pattern. My first thought was of an LED type glow.
September 10, 2022 · 3:00 PM · RECTANGLE
near village of Warrensville, NC
UFO Sighting by EMI Sometime around the 10-11th of September, I was house sitting for an acquaintance in Warrensville, NC. About mid-afternoon I went onto the South-facing deck to unwrap the American flag that the wind had wound around the flag pole. It was partly cloudy , but mostly clear except for a rather large dark cloud that I noticed in the Southern sky that was larger than the other white clouds. I wondered if it contained rain. The home is on top of a 3100 foot high mountain that overlooks Three Top Mountain range with tops from 3000 to 5000 feet. The address is about four miles Northwest of Warrensville, NC. The dark cloud appeared just above Three Top Mountain which is due South of her property. I would estimate the distance to the mountain to be 3 to 5 miles. I was looking at the dark cloud when I noticed something that appeared out of the very top where it was wispy. As I was looking due South the object appeared to be 25 to 30 degrees to the left. I would estimate the object was about 35 to 40 degrees above level. I did not notice any obvious source of propulsion nor was there any sound. It was moving approximately due North at a very steady and even pace. I thought I was seeing things so I looked away for a moment and when I looked back it had gone the proper distance of the path it was traveling. In other words it did not appear to slow down or speed up. Also, the object’s orientation remained consistent and did not wobble or otherwise change orientation. I could not tell how large it was or how fast it was going. From the first time I saw it to when it disappeared behind the house roof line was probably one minute. I had my cell phone with me but I was so interested in trying to figure out what it was I failed to think of taking a photo . The shape puzzled me a lot especially since it appeared to be moving on its own power. I would describe the object’s size, when I first saw it, as less than the diameter of a dime held at arm’s length. More like 3/8th of an inch. It was shaped much like an old box kite in three sections. The first section was larger than the middle section, and about the same size as the rear section. The first two sections appeared to be only a skeleton of a box, whereas the back section appeared to be box shaped with a covering over it. It was all gray or silver metallic looking - same color overall, but not shiny. I have included a sketch of what I saw. I went on-line to try and figure out what I saw, since I was still thinking it was something that had been launched by somebody somewhere on earth. Thinking it was a satellite was discarded later since my commercial airline pilot son said it was impossible to view any satellite details even from 41,000 feet - only a light would be seen. I searched for satellites anyway but decided nothing was even close to the shape that I saw. I then thought it could be a weather detecting device so went on line again but found nothing even close to that shape. I also thought of a drone, but nothing was close in shape to any drones either. It did not have the shape of any flying thing that I know about or have ever seen. In fact I cannot figure out how something that shape could fly at all. It was truly an unidentified object. The shape puzzled me. A rough sketch of the “thing” is attached as well as one a bit more refined. I have mentioned it to several people who in turn looked at me with an “I don’t believe you” look or laughed. Because of this, I have not mentioned it to anyone else except my son who I enlisted to help me discover what it was. I am still very puzzled about the “thing.” Sketches accompany (2) Copyright: Nov. 18, 2022 Photo of the observation that it was sighted from initially. Photo is approx S by SW slightly, not due South.
September 7, 2022 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
andrews, NC
the movement in the video is me not holding camera still, it did not jump around as it seems. However, with the naked eye it looked to move quickly to the left mostly then back to original spot. it changed colors and shapes rapidly. My sister stood beside me with her phone and took pictures and videos too. the last picture, u5, was taken by her.
September 5, 2022 · 12:51 PM · CIGAR
??, NC
My boyfriend and I were flying to Orlando florida. We were approximately at 30,000 feet, somewhere over the Carolina's. When something told me to look out my window. So I opened up the window cover and I saw a huge cigar shaped craft, it looked dark greyish, to almost black. It was traveling right next to the plane on the left side. Which means it was over the ocean coast. But moving right along the side of the plane for about 3-4 minutes. i would estimate it was about a half a mile to a mile away. My boyfriend and I both saw it and filmed it with my cell phone. It then went behind the wing of the plane before it just disappeared.What was strange was I was all excited speaking loudly saying to my Boyfriend look a UFO, jumping around in my seat. And no one around us even budged. They were just sitting there staring ahead. No one looked at me or said what do you see. It was almost like they were in a trance. Almost like it was meant just for us to see. I just need to say also, I had been meditating doing the CE5 asking to see a UFO. So it kinda freaked me out that it actually finally worked. The video I took isn't all that great, cause it happened so fast.
September 4, 2022 · 10:25 PM · CIRCLE
Wilmington, NC
Bright orange light like a giant fire ball falling from the sky then light disappears completely. Look left and see circle disk 100 times the size of an airplane with no lights, no sound, moving slow but fast at the same time because it was so large it looked like it was in slow motion. We could see the g force air being pushed in front of the craft which is what made it noticeable. This was our first experience ever witnessing a ufo. We can’t be the only ones who saw this in Wilmington tonight. Location murrayville.
September 4, 2022 · 10:24 PM · OTHER
Louisburg, NC
In my 41 years of life I have never seen anything even close to this. My 14 year old son and I had just walked out of my parents house and around 10:20pm on 09/04/2022 when my son starts hollering dad look up in the sky as ne was freaking out. I then ran inside to get my 18 year old son to come see this also. It was a HUGE V shaped object that seemed to be just floating through the sky.it changed direction once but the object its self never turned, twisted or nothing. The entire thing had a very dull orange glow to it Anything Ive ever came across in life that I've been unsure about always had a logical answer to what possibly could have happened or what it could have possibly been. But this object has completely confused my thought process and changed my beliefs. There is nothing that could possibly even come close to being able to say maybe it could have been that.
September 3, 2022 · 11:22 PM · CHANGING
East Bend, NC
I noticed some strange flashing lights in the sky. As I started filming and zoomed in it started to scare me. I have never witnessed anything like it. Flashing of red, green, blue and white lights that move into different formations. The lights changed directions frequently and moved out to about 5 or more orbs toward the end of the video. I filmed for 3 minutes and 40 seconds. When I ended the filming they were still there, but I was scared and ran inside. After going inside and telling my husband about what I experienced he walked outside and saw them as well.
September 3, 2022 · 5:46 AM · LIGHT
Burnsville, NC
There were smaller lights going to and from the larger light. There were roughly 4 smaller lights that I thought were planes until they disappeared into the larger light.
September 1, 2022 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Fayetteville, NC
Walking my dog for the late night shift, I had my eyes on the night sky it was quite clear. Looking up at the stars, I witnessed a point of light (assuming a star) at the moment turn into a ball of different colors. I watched as it came down vertically from the sky and hover for just a brief moment before completely going behind the tree line closer to the ground. This object gave no trail of entering the atmosphere so I checked off it being a meteor or satellite entry, this object also did not break apart into different sections either however the object stopped in mid descent before going back to “falling”. No noise only three bright bursts of light within split seconds of each other (Green,Blue,Purple) again leaving no streak on the night sky or splitting apart. Freaked me out while I stood on the side of the road watching in awe and quite frankly fear. It was crazy, had my hair standing up on the back of my neck.
August 30, 2022 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Flight from Charlotte to Wilmington NC, NC
While filming the lights on a night time flight I noticed my phone was picking up flashing not visible to the eye (IR) three flashes that disappeared and reappeared then I managed to get a photo of a small object in the clouds. the lights were not from a plane I thought maybe IR strobes on satellites but then I saw a round disc-ish shaped object in the cloud that had the same purple light around it.
August 29, 2022 · 2:03 AM
Pinehurst, NC
I let my dog at at 2 AM and noticed a multicolored flashing light in the sky After observing it for a while , it was not a plane. I went in to grab my iPhone and started taking pictures. Then I saw another one and I took pictures of that one as well.
August 25, 2022 · 9:15 PM · UNKNOWN
STATESVILLE, NC
I was standing on my back porch facing East and what I first thought was a bright shooting star that got really bright but it moved unusually slow from left to right in the sky. The light faded and all of a sudden another light appeared where the first one started. The second, third, fourth, and fifth lights followed the same path, duration, brightness and fading. I panicked to get family but the lights seemed to have moved farther away and lower in the sky which made them hard to see with the faint clouds. About 10 minutes later we heard and saw a large helicopter flying west over our house. I have never seen anything like this and I love watching the sky at night with the planes, satellites, space station, meteors. I feel kinda silly posting this but it was so unusual. Possibly Starlink
August 24, 2022 · 3:30 AM · SPHERE
Beaufort, NC
We saw 2 balls of light moving in random directions, disappearing and reappearing for approximately 30 minutes. We've since experienced the same phenomenon on 3 separate occasions twice at nags head and once at Ocracoke where a single ball came within 200 meters of our position then proceeded upward and became 2 separate balls then vanished. This sighting lasted about 20 to 30 minutes.
August 20, 2022 · 8:44 PM · CIRCLE
Walkertown, NC
They were formed in a square.4 reddish orangish lights then by the time I was videoing three had vanished and the last one disappeared as I was filming.
August 18, 2022 · 12:05 AM · UNKNOWN
Ashville, NC
I was in my bedroom and heard my dogs go crazy. I removed my headphones to hear what sounded like a loud, electric ringing and a quieter engine noise right above my house. It hovered for about 10 seconds then quickly went away. It didn't sound like a helicopter or airplane or drone. The floor was shaking during this too. As soon as it started to move my dogs went completely silent.
August 17, 2022 · 7:30 AM · DIAMOND
Wallace, NC
The craft was extremely shiny and looked as to be a diamond shape. It would turn slightly and within a second or two it would disapper and there were very few clouds around it. It has been. Seen about the same time and location quite a few times.
August 14, 2022 · 3:10 AM · LIGHT
Oriental, NC
I was running a tug boat heading east on the Neuse River approx 3 miles NE of Oriental, NC heading towards the Pamlico sound. I observed 3 white lights to my east in the sky in a triangle formation. The lights seemed to be moving to the SE. at times they would separate from each other briefly then come back together in a triangle formation. The movement I can describe only as unusual. The lights were white in color and dim brightness. I would guess they were at a distance of 8 to 10 miles and no higher than 5000 feet in altitude. After observing for approx 5 minutes they just disappeared. I see lots of lights and stuff running boats along the coast at night but this ranks with me as unusual.